Parenteral Nutrition

Parenteral nutrition is assuming much importance today, especially with increasing trends in the use of fat emulsions, amino acids, different sugars and polyols for parenteral administration in clinical investigations. It is therefore, most welcome that the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, Tennessee rightly convened an international symposium to compile all the information available concerning the use of current preparations in parenteral nutrition, with a view to suggest the modifications which should be considered in the manufacture of nutrient solutions for such use in the future.